Tag: Military

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand's leading daily newspaper today contrasted the "reckless self-expression" of anti-covid mandates protesters and the dangers confronting the people of...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France's nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk More than 100 Papua New Guinea soldiers from Taurama Barracks First Royal Pacific Islands Regiment arrived in the Southern Highlands capital...

By Ed Davies and Agustinus Beo Da Costa in Jakarta The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, is making a...

Two PNGDF helicopters had been deployed to the earthquake-hit Southern Highlands region to assist National Disaster officials carry out initial assessment, says Chief-of-Staff Colonel...

ANALYSIS: By Michael Powles with Anna Powles Australia's recent Foreign Policy White Paper says that Australia's approach in the region will focus on "helping to...

BOOKS: David Robie, editor of Pacific Journalism Review When Commodore (now rear admiral retired and an elected prime minister) Voreqe Bainimarama staged Fiji’s fourth "coup...

On the 10th anniversary of the Urewera raids, we should recount the lessons – and we should remember. Breathless police and media commentary about a...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Joint Security Operation in Papua New Guinea's Western Province will see more than 100 Defence Force troops assisting in the...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Indonesian Military (TNI) has begun mobilising its forces -- including warships and intelligence operations -- in northern parts of Indonesia...

Carmela Fonbuena files this a video report from Mindanao, Philippines. Video: Rappler By Carmela Fonbuena in Iligan City, Mindanao About 78 civilians held captive by the...

By Fadi In Batam, Ruiau Islands, Indonesia A Chinese-made cannon has malfunctioned and fired off shots randomly during military exercises in Indonesia's Tanjung Datuk, Natuna,...

Indonesia's military says it is reporting an online news site to the police after it wrote about an Intercept story alleging current and retired...

The authors of the controversial investigative book Hit & Run have accused Prime Minister Bill English of ensuring the allegations of a New Zealand...

ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 2) Following the awkward debacle of suspended military cooperation with Australia, in another maverick moment, General Gatot Nurmantyo told the...

ANALYSIS: By Johannes Nugroho (Part 1) Since its inception in 2014, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration has witnessed growing rivalry between the Indonesian Military (TNI)...

REVIEW: By Dr Wayne Hope It can’t have been easy for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and their political leaders to deny the results...